Monday, May 05, 2014

Toy
Spotting: My new hobby for toy market watch that I’ve been doing since late 90’s
when I started to collect action figures and toys. In toy spotting, I just visit
a toy store, look for some interesting toy for sale especially the discounted
toy items, I usually don’t buy a toy when I do toy spotting, but there are times
that I buy toys if ever I like the toy and the price is discounted. Back in the
days, we call it toy hunting, we hunt for toys and buy the rare ones that are
sold for a cheap price. I usually visit the mainstream toy stores and provincial
malls that have their own toy section, there are times that they have awesome
vintage toys sold inside that are now collecting dust.For this toy
spotting series, I spotted some cool new toys and old toys in Toy
Kingdom.

Above is the Burger truck from Tomica, Its my first time to see
this burger truck and I went on panic because I want it, and I’m sure my son
want it too, I looked on the Tomica shelf and saw no box of the Tomica burger
truck.arghhhh I will visit another Toy Kingdom store for this Tomica burger
truck.

Scrambling
Eggs toy carI’m impressed with this kind of toy car, the egg shape car
transforms from egg and then to a car. This is a must have for a toy car
collector. I’m not a bit comfortable with the price, but since you buy two toys
for a price of one…. egg and car hahhaa.

Pull
back plastic carThe price is cheap, this plastic toy car with pull back
feature is so cute. I can buy each every time I visit Toy Kingdom for Ashton as
my pasalubong hahaha.

The
super deformed plastic toy cars have a fire truck, ambulance, tanker and dump
trucks.hmm…collect them all ???

Tonka
Chuck and friendsI’m attracted to this toy because of its yellow price tag,
it means that they already lowered the price to PHP 200. This is already a nice
offer and Tonka toys are one of the best starter toys for toddlers. I will buy
this next time.

Plastic
display case for die cast carsI didn’t know that they sell this inside Toy
Kingdom, I’m planning to store those cool die cast cars we have at home, I have
some die cast cars that are a collectors’ item, but my son already plays with it
and the entire box is missing, this plastic display case will help me to store
those cool toy cars and to warn my son that’s a big no no to touch the
collectors’ item section of my toy cabinet. Its cheap at PHP 129.

Hot
Wheels red DeLorean carOMG. its rare to see this inside the toy store.. I
have a friend who have this toy car and sells it over the PHP99 range.. It looks
good, but too bad that the car’s door are not opening because its Hot
Wheels.

Its
awesome to see the Toy Kingdom store that I visited decided to put more shelves
for Tomica.I’m not sure if they are heavily promoting Plarail train hobby to
kids.

PHP 1.5k for a Plarail set….. ok next time! we have one set
already at home..but I still want a MRT and a Shinkansen train for Ashton.

Spin-Go
pull back high speed motorcycle toy.We have this toy…but according to my
son, he lost it and can’t find it, because its so small and it fly away
somewhere around the house, thanks to the push forward motorized action that
powers the toy motorcycle to run in high speed up to 22 KPH, I think it’s the
fastest high speed toy vehicle. Toy Kingdom SM Aura gave us a complimentary toy
loot when the store opened, they introduced to us this Spin-Go toy.

Me
and Ashton are planning to buy this loop tracks, but we lost the toy
already..

But
that’s okay, we can buy the loop track with a free motorcycle for a price of PHP
299 Ok..next time!

Nano
Speed armored car and tankWhen Ashton got his first Micro Chargers from
Australia (thanks Ate Joni and Anya), I told my son that we should have this
Nano Speed toy, just like Spin-Go, it doesn’t require any batteries and the pull
back action powers the tiny car to run in full speed.

Pororo
now finally got his own shelfI’m in ipon mode to buy that Pororo doll.

Another
cool toy for this summer, throw the ball and catch it using the racket with
velcro sticker